Joshua Foust and his commenters at Registan have a rather different, cautionary view of things in the Caucasus. I offer it at this point for perusal. The linked post is from early on, like Rob Farley’s. Opinions at the site have evolved a bit since.
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It appears Russian forbearance is sorely lacking in Georgia:
Russian troops briefly seized a Georgian military base and took up positions close to the Georgian city of Gori on Monday, raising Georgian fears of a full-scale invasion or an attempt to oust the country’s pro-Western president, Mikheil Saakashvili.
Like I said previously, there’s really nothing to stop them [...]
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